A positive thing that I am going to do during the Mid-Semester Break is to rest. To rest from everything, rest from calculus of doom , rest from the derivation which i don't even know when I will use this in my future. Rest from some codes " cin,cout,and syntax error" and let the programmers all around the world do their jobs. Rest from environmental problems and watch Karam Singh Walia on Aduan Rakyat. I am going to rest, empty my mind like a zen monk but there is one thing I can't rest.

That is my blog assignment from Technical Communication Blog. It keeps coming and coming, weeks by weeks, and make me wonder don't they deserve to rest too? I admire their passion and never rest attitude for the blog. Anyway I am gonna close my eyes and wake me up when the break ends.

Leaders are made to lead, the quality of leaders are depends on their leadership. It is not something that comes naturally. Most leaders have their own experiences that push them to sit in a place where nobody wants to take throne. It is not the leaders to evaluate themselves, saying they are great, it is people around them said they are great. So far as I know, the leader who said he is the greatest would fall. Take a look at Saddam Hussein? What happen to him? The leadership is also depending on trust and influence. If nobody wants trust the leader, so what is the purpose of being a leader? Just step down and pass the baton to others !

"A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." —Nelson Mandela

(p/s: There are too many conflicts in middle east which makes me think of these so-called leaders, do they see a huge number of protesters? Egoism doesn’t make you more powerful, it makes you weaker)

Students must vote during the ‘Student” Election” because who else want to vote for the candidates if not students?

The reason above alone has give us answer but personally i don't think students "must" vote for candidates. Students should think carefully about who they are voting as this may affect the future of the university. We are not able to think rationally if we feel we are forced to vote, at last we will randomly vote for someone who we don't know and he/she may not capable to lead. What I am trying say is if you have someone who can lead,support him/her and if you have no one to trust,just be neutral,let others do their jobs,you wouldn't regret either.

(p/s: Between bad and baddest? who did i choose ? no one.......)

- Some of my job during JPM election at July 2008 if i am not mistaken

Do you think we should give monetary incentives to the KP2 students to motivate them to get better grades? Some would say yes, others would say no. Before we go further, let’s see what the meaning of KP2 students. KP2 students are those who get below 2.0 CGPA in their university. In this case, we will discuss about money as an incentives.

First, what is money? Does the money have magical charm to solve the problem? Everyday and every time, we use money for everything. For example, politicians use money to bribe people to vote for him, football clubs use money to lure great player to join the club, human activist use money to buy medicines and food for the poor people. So, it is clear that money is a catalyst to achieve something.

Monetary incentive has its upside and downside. The upside is that KP2 students would feel motivate to get greater result. The downside is how do they want to achieve the target? Do money makes they understand the syllabus more? As we mention earlier, that money is a catalyst to achieve something, money itself has strong attraction that makes we want to go for it. This would make sense if more students get caught during the exams if monetary incentive is implanted.

There are several factors that affect the student’s result, but in this case, there will be two people are involved, and yet they would not stop playing the blame game. These two persons are the students and the lecturers. For students, it is the attitude that affects the result. Do we try hard enough? Do we complete the assignments? What would we do if we do not understand the lectures? These are the questions that we have to ask ourselves. In statistic for every semester, many students who get higher or average carry marks would drop their marks in final exam. Why? Because most of questions are completely ridiculous with our level which it cannot be found in lectures or tutorials and yes, the lectures even said “this test is so hard, and even I hardly to do it”. The lecturers should look up for the trends and change. We do not expect the final exam to be as easy as ABC but just test us in our level. Why continue the system that has failed us for every semester?

In a conclusion, we would agree that monetary incentive should be implanted but it must be follow up with intensive classes. For those who want monetary incentive, he or she must join the intensive classes. With this method, students would be confident of them selves and create a better understanding between the lectures and students.

(p/s: I found something interesting on the web, it's about type of students in university, just enter your name and email in this link )

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The meaning that can be related to education is number 5, which means “a strong desire for high achievement” and “an object of such desire; an ambition”. Both of these meanings have the word “desire” on it. So, my educational aspiration for 2011 is can be described as “what is my desire in education for 2011”.

Everybody wants to achieve higher pointer as their aspiration in the new semester, but as time goes by, we tend to lower our expectation to gain success. We blame for everything in the past, regret in the present, and repeat the mistake in the future. I do not blame everyone for their aspiration as I do the same mistake like everybody else. It is okay to set our CGPA as our educational aspiration as my friend on twitter quoted;

So, what is my educational aspiration for 2011? I hope that all the things that I have learned in university will have its real use in my life later on, as today’s education mainly focuses on theory rather than practical. I do not want to learn just to get higher CGPA, and then I would know nothing on how to apply my knowledge. Now, I have told you, my educational aspiration for 2011, so what are yours?

Assalamualaikum to all friends, topic for today is about aspiration. In the dictionary, the meaning of aspiration is a strong desire to achieve something. From this sentence we know that, inspiration is so important in our life, because, from inspiration, there will come ambition and from ambition we will find the way of our life. The aspiration also come from the weakness from ourselves, so, from aspiration we would learn about the weakness from our self and try to improve it.

For me, my aspiration for this year is a not different with another year before because, a lot of my aspiration that did not achieve on last year. Therefore, I would like to chase them back this year. I hope that it would done this entire thing in this year. InsyaAllah .